As a rule, little changes in basic human responses. For example, it is probably fair to say that throughout human history, just about all decent people have celebrated the death of those human beings understood to be truly evil.

Luke Ford writes: A 28 yo man calls Dennis Prager’s show today. “I noticed with my first girlfriend I didn’t have an interest in being with many women. It wasn’t until I had my second that I was interested in being with my third and fourth. I’ve noticed the same thing with some of my friends. It seems that the more experience you get, the more interest you are in being with many women.

“Places with arranged marriages. It’s claimed they are unlikely to end in divorce. I always thought that was because they were in places where the male and female were likely to be virgins when married and that’s a powerful thing to keep a couple together.”

Dennis: “I would be curious to know if men who’ve married the only woman they’ve been with are less likely to be unfaithful.”

I love people who know who they are and what their place is in life. I love strong identities. It makes relating to someone much easier. Generally, I prefer to deal with a committed Muslim than a wishy-washy Jew. With a devout Muslim, I know who I’m dealing with. I know most of their boundaries. I know what they stand for.

A Jew not rooted in Judaism, by contrast, can be all over the map. It takes a lot of effort to extract their values.

A Jew in a black suit and white shirt and a long beard, I know what to expect from such a creature. They’re going to be observant of Jewish law.

I quickly fell in love with the TV. I had decided in eighth grade that profession would be journalism, so I watched the news and imagined myself delivering it.

I transferred to public school for the first time in tenth grade (the fall of 1981). I took a journalism class and a media class, where I began a weekly news report on the school broadcast on the local radio station in Auburn, KAHI 95 AM.

I have a friend with a bad back. He had surgery on it a year or two ago. And by the way he uses himself, I can tell he’s going to have nothing but trouble with his back in the future.

Despite this, he has zero interest at looking at his habits that are causing his problems.

This man — in his twenties — walks around with a chronically compressed neck and spine and hunched shoulders. There’s nothing he can do to overcome this. He can only learn to undo his habits that are causing his back problems.

This guy is big into exercise but every time he exercises, he only ingrains his bad habits deeper and deeper.

“I wanted to lead a halachically observant community so decided it was best to transfer to JTS where it would be far more likely I’d be working at a congregation that kept kosher, was more Shabbat observant and had more davenning with traditional nusach — things I grew up with that were part of my personal practice,” said Rachel Isaacs who on May 19th became the first openly gay frum female rabbi to be ordained by the JTS.

I felt the tension in my face, particularly around my eyes, and released it. As I did so, all of my annoyance and anger disappeared. I wasn’t upset at anyone, not myself and not the organizers. As I walked, I found I could only feel annoyed if I tensed and compressed my facial muscles. By contrast, when I released unnecessary tension, I could only feel serene.

Every emotion is only possible with a certain alignment of the musculature. Anger, happiness, joy, serenity, disappointment, rage, all of these emotions require a particular alignment of the head, neck and back. Leave that alignment and you leave that emotion behind.

If you’re poised in your body and in your use of yourself, you’re going to be emotionally poised. If you are stiff in your body, you’re going to be emotionally stiff. All of the severe emotions require you to tense and to compress your neck. Let go of this compression and you let go of the severe emotions.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6)

From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions.

The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.

This article was written by the author — my mother — shortly before her death from cancer in 1970.

By Gwen Ford

“This lump will have to come out,” the doctor said kindly. My mind raced. “This little lump?” I thought. “Why, it’s not much bigger than a pea, and I feel so well, Surely there can be nothing wrong.” The doctor continued, “If it is malignant, the whole breast will have to come off.”

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

Friday, May 13, 2011

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

* This week’s parasha starts out with the commandment of the Sabbatical year of rest for the land (Shmita), which has rarely been observed in Jewish history (2 Chronicles 36:21) because of its impractical nature.

* Every 50 years is the Jubilee year, the year of freedom. It does not sound practical and has rarely been observed in Jewish history.

* Torah does not want a permanent upper class and underclass.

* Torah expects people will own property.

* Poor people in Lev. 25 do not need to feel ashamed. There is no mention of charity or compassion. You don’t take care of people out of your feelings. You do it out of responsibility. During the Great Depression, it was rare for Jews to go on welfare. The community took care of its own. Free loan societies and the like.

* We’ll talk about the Agriprocessors case. How did Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin get 27 years in prison when most murderers don’t get that long of a sentence?

Saturday, May 7, 2011

A caller to Dennis Prager’s radio show today, Michael, says: “Even though a wife will swear and claim she won’t do it, a wife will put the below adulthood children’s welfare above yours. Even though they may rationally know that is not a good idea, they can’t control themselves.”

Dennis seems to think it is the female inclination to put her children before her husband and she should fight that urge. The marriage should come first.

Dennis: “The instinct is universal. The culture today reinforces the instinct. It is a culture of helicopter parents, parents constantly hovering over the child.

Unless the person has some extraordinary qualities or proximities to me, I don’t like to look at fat people.

If I see the person in shul or at work or in a writer’s group or at yoga and I get to know them, then I forget about them being fat and I relate to them like they’re human, but otherwise, I tend to shy away from fat people. I’m judgmental. I think fat people should lose weight and until they do, they’re just too sloppy for me.

Friday, May 6, 2011

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

* I suspect the Torah would rejoice in the royal wedding. Here are two goys pledging eternal fidelity. The Torah is cool with people having a special role, including kingship, by birth. Psalm 45 is about the joy of a royal wedding.

* Is it sacrilegious or sinful to say that some Torah portions are more or less riveting than others? For instance, the traditional commentators such as Rashi and the Rambam had more to say and less to say about varying parshas.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Luke Ford writes: Women are constantly throwing themselves at me. Luckily, I have a God-given universal moral code to live up to and that prohibits me from swiping my credit cards in waitresses’ cleavage.

In February, CBS, after learning that other media were asking questions about the incident, said that its correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.

Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack lasted for about 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

When a Jew or a Christian poses naked or engages in intimate relations on video, her co-religionists don’t threaten to kill her for her sins.

Sure, those who take their religion seriously are disgusted by her behavior, nobody gets more riled up about women running around naked than myself, not even Osama Bin Laden, but it wouldn’t even occur to me to threaten to kill her.

I’d rather love her and gently instruct her that the queen’s power lies within.

Heck, some of us would even be willing to marry her (provided she converted to Orthodox Judaism), if only to make an honest woman of her and to save her family from shame.

About Me

I am an Alexander Technique teacher in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com). I have five books available on Amazon.com. I've been blogging since 1997. I was born in Kurri Kurri, Australia, on May 28, 1966. I have lived in California since May 1977.